Some Small Soapboxes

is right: we're in no rush to move to HD DVDs, they'll
be great when we get them, but do it right, and ONE FORMAT ONLY! Warner's
idea of highly compressing the video to squeeze it onto a slightly higher
capacity DVD is lame and defeats the whole purpose of going to HD in the
first place, but for the "blue laser" formats: ONE FORMAT ONLY!

Illegal Junk Faxes

These <expletives reluctantly deleted> have discovered my fax
machine. They're in violation of at least one federal law regarding
unsolicited faxes, I'm pretty sure they're violating another one by not
including the source fax number on the faxes, all of which (aside from the
content itself) leads me be certain they're promoting a scam to boot. While
I would never be one to promote cyber-vigilante-ism, don't you just sometimes
wish that everyone in the whole world would just hammer their 800 number
(800-213-1207 or 800-205-4437) and run them up a huge phone bill.
Or that Slashdot would post their website,
www.RealWealth4UsThanksToYourIdiocy.com and it would crash under the load.